<p class="shortdesc">You can unmount an EBS disk from one cloud server and mount it to another cloud server. </p> <section class="section context" id="mountdrive__context_xmf_zym_slb"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="doc-tairway">About this task</h2></div> <ul class="ul" id="mountdrive__ul_ftg_zym_slb"> <li class="li">The ECS instance to be mounted has been created and its status is <strong class="ph b">Running</strong>. </li> <li class="li">The EBS disk for mounting has been created and its status must be <strong class="ph b">To Be Mounted</strong>. </li> </ul> </section> <section class="section context" id="mountdrive__context_mcf_xym_slb"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="doc-tairway">About this task</h2></div> <p class="p">If you create an EBS disk with an ECS instance, the disk will be mounted to the ECS instance by default. When creating a separately created EBS disk, you also need to select the disk to be mounted. For the above two methods, after the ECS or EBS disk is created, the disk will be automatically mounted to the corresponding ECS instance without additional operations. Only when an EBS disk has been unmounted from an ECS instance and turned into <strong class="ph b">To Be Mounted</strong> can you mount it to another cloud server through the console. </p> </section> <section class="section limitation" id="mountdrive__vvs_wym_slb"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="doc-tairway">Limitation</h2></div> <ul class="ul" id="mountdrive__ul_frr_zym_slb"> <li class="li">The EBS disk to be mounted can only be a data disk but not a system disk.</li> <li class="li">The EBS disk can only be mounted to the ECS instance in the same region and the same availability zone. </li> <li class="li">General EBS and SSD EBS disk mounting after being unmounted is not supported.</li> <li class="li">Mounting a monthly EBS disk created with an instance at the same time after being unmounted is not supported.</li> </ul> </section> <section><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="doc-tairway">Procedure</h2></div><ol class="ol steps"><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">Log in to the <a class="xref" href="/console/ecs/overview" target="_blank">ECS Console</a>.</span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">In the left navigation pane, click <span class="ph menucascade"><span class="ph uicontrol">Block Storage</span><abbr title="and then"> > </abbr><span class="ph uicontrol">Disk</span></span>. </span> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">On the <span class="keyword wintitle">Disk Management</span> page, find the disk to be mounted, and then click <span class="ph menucascade"><span class="ph uicontrol"><img class="image" id="mountdrive__image_bzw_hvm_slb" src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200707171848-178b1c519895.png"></span><abbr title="and then"> > </abbr><span class="ph uicontrol">Mount</span></span> in the operation column.</span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <img class="image" id="mountdrive__image_abw_lzm_slb" src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200707171848-1ae6ebd39424.png" width="800"> </div> </li><li class="li step stepexpand"> <span class="ph cmd">On the <span class="keyword wintitle">Select ECS Instance</span> page, tick the corresponding ECS instance, and then click <span class="ph uicontrol">Confirm</span>. </span> <div class="itemgroup info"> <img class="image" id="mountdrive__image_uhn_4zm_slb" src="https://obs-cn-shanghai.yun.pingan.com/pcp-portal/20200707171848-1fbafa2391cc.png" width="800"> </div> </li></ol></section> <section class="section result" id="mountdrive__result_nrd_qzm_slb"><div class="tasklabel"><h2 class="doc-tairway">Results</h2></div> <p class="p">On the <span class="keyword wintitle">Disk Management</span> page, the disk status will change from <strong class="ph b">To Be Mounted</strong> to <strong class="ph b">Mounting</strong>, and to <strong class="ph b">In-use</strong> probably a few minutes later.</p> </section>